Berket El Sabaa WTP

Plant Control and Monitoring System

Water Treatment Plant Distributed Control System (PDCS)

General:

The Water Treatment Plant Control System is provided to maintain the quality and quantity of the potable
water production, to maintain a safe and reliable operation for the entire Process Units, and to display the
operation conditions and process variables of the plant.

The PDCS is based on distributed control architecture. The individual processing units shall be monitored
and controlled as individual units and as interacting parts of the entire process.

Events that originate in one process unit, and may have an impact on another process unit shall be
routed by the system via standard field bus highway within the frame work of the total plant process
control logic.

Various modes of operation are implemented in the system, such as, Local, Remote, and Automatic, in
addition to Manual.

The proposed system, in addition to its value, for monitoring and controlling the plant, can optionally in the
future, if so required, be part of a higher level monitoring and control system that can collect information
from various treatment plants for consolidated reports at any remote central location.

Plant Distributed Control System Objectives

 To ensure reliable proper performance of the process

 To ensure safe plant operation under normal and abnormal conditions
 To minimize the influence of human errors
 To implement a predictable plant performance under major power failure and power resumption
 To provide central process information and alarms facility
 To minimize the complexity of plant cabling
 To reduce to minimum the need for costly maintenance efforts
 To ensure that plants can be operated efficiently with semi skilled operators

The system is structured on the following basis:

 Use of Modern Technology

 Use of Distributed Processing Structure
 Use of Standard Control Bus Structure

The implementation of the Plant Control system focuses on:

 Simple and Easy Plant Operation

 Reliable performance of the process within design limits
 Modular and scalable for easy modification and/or expansion
 Easy to Maintain